SWAT

Small towns that don’t have the staffing or money to maintain a SWAT unit properly are doing it anyway. And it’s endangering innocent lives. The mother of a 19-month-old boy, maimed by a SWAT team’s flash grenade, said it was like being “attacked by a vicious pack of dogs…it changed everything.” Unfortunately, mistakes are happening in small communities across...

Small cities often don’t have the resources to meet recommended standards but roll out SWAT teams anyway

David Lim talks about the new CBS show ‘Swat’ also starring Shemar Moore, Alex Russell and Lina Esco. As seen on California Live on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.

Officers encountered a man they said was uncooperative and who barricaded himself in the residence, triggering an hours-long standoff with police.

LAPD and the SWAT team have found the car involved in a kidnapping incident and have the suspect’s car surrounded in downtown LA. Michelle Valles reports live for Today in LA on July 30, 2019.

A man allegedly armed with a shotgun was holed up with his teenage son in a garage at a residence in Pacoima Tuesday for several hours before surrendering peacefully, police said.

Fort Worth Police Department SWAT officers are the first in the country to deploy a new, non-lethal weapon that uses a rope to lasso a person’s arms or legs.

Three women and one man were arrested for allegedly operating an illegal casino in Pomona, authorities said Saturday.

After 12 hours, dozens of SWAT members and tear gas, the burglary suspect who barricaded himself inside an In-N-Out in Temple City is now in police custody thanks to the help of a small Patterdale Terrier named Deek. Kim Baldonado reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2018.

Police said they have found human remains while investigating after a police standoff and fiery explosion on Quinnipiac Avenue in North Haven Wednesday night that injured 10 police officers.

A knife-wielding man was arrested after an hours-long standoff Wednesday morning in a Van Nuys Denny’s.

SWAT members responded to a Van Nuys Denny’s following a report of a knife-wielding man Wednesday April 11, 2018.

An armed man held off police in a busy section of downtown Long Beach during the afternoon rush hour Wednesday, but was subdued by a police dog on live television.

A possibly armed man was taken into custody Thursday after he barricaded himself and held up a two-story apartment in Koreatown.

A four-hour SWAT standoff ended after a possibly armed man barricaded himself in a Koreatown apartment complex. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for Today in LA on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.

The family of a Kansas man fatally shot at the door of his home after a hoax emergency call wants the police officer who killed him criminally charged for his death, their attorney said Tuesday.

A man who threatened his neighbors with a knife, stabbed a neighbor’s dog and barricaded himself inside a North Hollywood apartment with an LAPD SWAT team outside was taken into custody about 8 1/2 hours after the incident began, authorities said.

After an ordeal that spanned from late Saturday to early Sunday, sheriff’s deputies said they safely removed a man who had barricaded himself inside a West Hollywood apartment complex. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Sunday, August 6, 2017.

Twelve people were arrested in a series of early morning raids in Los Angeles and Orange Counties as part of federal identity-theft, credit card and narcotics probes. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

A suspected prowler who holed up in a Tujunga home Monday, at one point firing shots that prompted an officer-involved shooting, died at the scene after being flushed out of the residence with gas and tumbling down a ravine.